Central Retail Vietnam's sourcing team has met with businesses and suppliers in the south-east to discuss co-operation opportunities at a trade promotion conference between HCM City and its neighbours in Binh Phuoc Province last week.

Representatives of the retailer’s fast-moving consumer goods and fresh food divisions apprised their interlocutors about their purchasing processes, documentation, packing, and labelling requirements.

The meeting should make it easier for businesses and co-operatives to bring their products into Central Retail’s Go! and Big C supermarket chains, they added.

Central Retail struck deals with six suppliers in the southeast region: VINAHE Co., Ltd (roasted cashewnuts), Nham Nhung production establishment (coffee, cashewnuts), Ha My JSC (cashewnuts), Co Co Viet Nam Food JSC (coconut jelly, aloe vera-based products), La Media establishment (melon), Kim Long Hi-tech Cooperative (melon, longan and pineapple).

The south-eastern region consists of Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Binh Phuoc, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, and Tay Ninh provinces and HCM City. — VNS